Seagate May Sue if Solid State Disks Get Popular

tero writes "Even though Seagate has announced it will be offering SSD disks of its own in 2008, their CEO Bill Watkins seems to be sending out mixed signals in a recent Fortune interview 'He's convinced, he confides, that SSD makers like Samsung and Intel (INTC) are violating Seagate's patents. (An Intel spokeswoman says the company doesn't comment on speculation.) Seagate and Western Digital (WDC), two of the major hard drive makers, have patents that deal with many of the ways a storage device communicates with a computer, Watkins says. It stands to reason that sooner or later, Seagate will sue — particularly if it looks like SSDs could become a real threat.'"

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Re:holy cats! the world is changing!

[superwiz]

Insisting that people who are truly innovative should do so for free is communist. But hey, if you don't think there is a lot of that going around here, look, gp is already modded troll. I really don't think all the trashing of Seagate here is justified... it is more of a knee-jerk venting at everyone else getting buisiness-method patents that's causing this. I mean, c'mon, it's entirely possible that they have their own error-correction mechanisms involved in communicating with the bus. Why should they give it away? They had to pay people to develop them.